Re: box tree terminology

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about "child box"? An anonymous child box is often a sibling to a child element. A column is a child of a multicol element.
>
> Perhaps that doesn't work so well as a term for page boxes, but perhaps it doesn't need to.

Ordinary boxes can already be children of each other.  I changed
Flexbox's term from "flexbox child" to "flexbox item" specifically
because it was confusing to have the word "child" mean something other
than a child element or child box.

~TJ

Received on Friday, 1 April 2011 17:30:09 UTC